onathan Anderson’s A/W22 menswear show for Loewe inhabited a surreal realm: a vest illuminated with glowing LED lights, rubber boots in bulbous proportions, jackets and bags covered with plugs as if transplanted from a kitchen sink. It is a reflection of a conceptual mood that permeates the menswear collections this season, where everyday garments have been reimagined with unexpected results. A Church’s loafer is sliced with holes, recalling those in found Swiss cheese and offering a playful glimpse of sock–or foot – beneath. Part of a collaboration between the shoemaker and Off-White, it marks one of Virgil Abloh’s last fashion collaborations. At Raf Simons, a cap is melded with a cape, inspired by a figure in a 16th-century painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, refracted through the
